Kassel main train station - Kassel Hauptbahnhof

The station forecourt with the Documenta artwork Himmelsstürmer.

The Kassel Central Station is located not far from downtown kassel. Since the new long-distance train station was built Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe In 1991, the station in station category 2 only played a subordinate role and was usually only served by local transport, but with 13,000 passengers a day, it had more local transport customers than that Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe train station with 9,000 passengers.

background

The station hall, in the middle access to Kassel HBF (deep)
Kassel Hauptbahnhof low, this is where the RegioTram trains stop.
The Kassel main train station before the bombing raids on Kassel.
A Cantus multiple unit in Kassel's main train station.
RegioTram in Kassel Hauptbahnhof low.
A RegioTram train leaves the main station in the tram network.
In the south wing there are several museums and galleries, on the right the overgrown platform 1.
The Spohr Museum in the south wing.

The main train station of kassel was built between 1851 and 1856 according to designs by the Hessian chief architect Gottlob Engelhard. During the Second World War, the station was badly damaged by bombing, which is why it was partially rebuilt between 1952 and 1960 according to plans by Friedrich Bätjer. He also received an underground tram connection. However, this was closed for the RegioTram in 2005 when the main station was tunneled under.

In the main station there are several cultural institutions that were created in the course of a renovation in 1995 in the station. Since then, the Kassel main station has also been called the cultural station. This is an exhibition venue of the Documenta every 5 years, most recently in 2012. For more information, see section Kulturbahnhof.

mobility

For information on public transport, see here in the article City of Kassel.

A station of the Kasseler Konrad bike rental system can be found east of the train station at one of the bus stops.

Directions

Access and parking for motor vehicles

  • Public parking are located north of the main train station on Joseph-Beuys-Straße. From around 35 parking spaces, you can also go to the main station through the somewhat dreary north entrance (at the zebra crossing).
  • "DB parking lots" are located south of the main train station in Franz-Ulrich-Straße. More information at BahnPark.

taxi

A taxi stand is located south of Rainer-Dierichs-Platz (station forecourt).

links

Of the former 13 tracks, only tracks 4 to 11 and 13 are used today. The RegioTram, which goes into the city center, only runs from the lower tracks 4, 5 and 6 (we often talk about Kassel Hbf (deep)). These can be reached via stairs and elevators. The regional express trains run from track 7 via Marburg to Frankfurt am Main, from track 8 the regional express trains from Hagen to Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe and from track 9 to Hagen. As a rule, the trains of the stop at tracks 10, 11 and 13 cantus transport company, a Deutsche Bahn fire brigade train is on platform 12. Tracks 10 and 11 are the longest, and long-distance trains usually also "spend the night" there.

buses

Several city and regional bus routes stop at the station forecourt (Rainer-Dierichs-Platz) bus stopbus stop is officially called Central Station, General plan.

Local transport

RegioTram

Regional trains

Other regional express trains only run from Kassel-Wilhlemshöhe.

Long-distance transport

The main train station in Kassel is rarely approached by long-distance trains of the Deutsche Bahn according to the timetable, but long-distance trains are often parked in the station overnight. The long-distance train station of kassel is the Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe train stationwho is on the high-speed line Hanover <> Wurzburg lies.

service

DB travel center / NVV customer center

Opening times: Monday-Friday 8 a.m. - 5 p.m., closed on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays.

Check-in at Paderborn-Lippstadt Airport in the evening

Opening times: 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. daily

Toilets in the train station

Public toilets (with a disabled toilet) are located between the Gleis 1 restaurant and the Apel bakery.

Waiting

In addition to wooden benches on the tracks, there is a small, also unheated waiting room in the station hall. There is no DB lounge in the main station, and there is none in the planning stage. Alternatively, the gastronomy offers itself to wait.

kitchen

Restaurants in the main train station:

  • A Burger King The branch is located at the main entrance. She no longer has any toilets (see HNA-Items)
  • The Apel bakery can be found close to the RegioTram elevators.
  • The restaurant Track 1 is, as the name suggests, near the former platform 1 in the south wing.
  • The Café am Kuba is opposite the Burger King at the main entrance.

accommodation

Hotels in the vicinity of the train station:

  • 1  Hotel Reiss, Werner-Hilpert-Strasse 24. Hotel reopened in 2012 with a long history.
  • 2  Hotel Excelsior, Erzbergerstrasse 2.
  • 3  Hotel Tiffany, Erzbergerstrasse 7.

shop

The following shopping options are available in the station and in the vicinity of the station:

  • Woolworth, In the railway station.
  • Stern pharmacy, across from Rainer-Dierichs-Platz.
  • Money grief, In the railway station.
  • Tobacco products Brzezina, In the railway station.

Kulturbahnhof

Several cultural institutions have been located in the main train station and the outdoor area since 1995. Information on this is also available on the website of the Kulturbahnhof.

Museums

  • Caricatura - gallery for comic art. Germany's only gallery for comic art has had its permanent home in the KulturBahnhof since 1995. With five exhibitions a year and an extensive accompanying program, Kassel has developed into a leading center for caricature and satire in Germany.
  • Signal box. On the initiative of the Kunsthochschule Kassel, a forum for young visual arts was created with the Stellwerk art space in the KulturBahnhof. Works by artists and art students from Kassel or other cities in Germany and Europe will be shown.
  • Spohr Museum. The Spohr Museum presents the life and work of the famous composer and violinist Louis Spohr (1784-1859). Diverse hands-on stations invite you to try it out.
  • South wing. Changing exhibitions in the listed south wing.
  • KAZimCuba. With the Kassel Architecture Center in the KulturBahnhof, a lively forum for diverse events and exhibitions in the field of planning and construction was created in 1998. The discussion about architecture is held there between the specialist audience and the general public.
  • Video walk. In 2013 the Canadian artists Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller created "Alter Bahnhof Video Walk" for dOCUMENTA (13), a work of art with a strong connection to the history of Kassel. A small portable media player with a screen and headphones invites you to take a stroll through the old Kassel main train station, where reality and history mix with artistic imagination and fiction. The work was purchased by the city of Kassel and is looked after by the city museum, which also organizes the loan to visitors.

movie theater

  • Bali cinemas. Two cinemas in the Kulturbahnhof with their own programs.

miscellaneous

  • Media project center Open channel Kassel - Since 1992 the citizens of Kassel have been able to design their own television.

Web links

see also

Project development page on the topic of train stations: Wikivoyage: Proposal for train station items

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